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• r  with condescension; in a patronizing manner

• He refers to himself in the third person, calls the Russians "Soviets," leans patronizingly into people's faces and brags about passing legislation by saying "I did it with my own .
• As its characters lectured a high school class about terrorism, the show figuratively and patronizingly reduced its audience to schoolchildren who needed a lesson.
• After dominating much of the past two millenniums in science and philosophy, they've spent the past 100 years being invaded, split apart and patronizingly lectured by the West.

• condescendingly
• patronisingly

News & Articles

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• WWE News: Daniel Bryan's Merchandise Sales Confirm He's an A+ Player
  For months now, Daniel Bryan has been plagued by the “B+ Player” moniker that The Authority has patronizingly bestowed upon him. And at one point, as condescending as they’ ve been about it, Triple H and his entourage may well have had a case. But in recent months Bryan has established himself as arguably the hottest commodity on WWE programming. His wonderfully simple “Yes!” catchphrase has ...
  March 13, 2014 - Bleacher Report